Specialist: Speech & Language - Mrs. Decker
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"I Know You're The Speech Teacher...Tell Me What You Do?"
We are known by many names: Speech Teacher, Speech/Language Teacher, Speech Pathologist, Speech Therapist, Speech/Language Therapist, Speech Clinician, etc. However our technical title is Speech/Language Pathologist, or SLP for short.An SLP can provide a variety of students who have speech/language disorders or difficulties:- screening and assessment
- direct therapy in a pull-out or push-in setting
- collaboration and consultation with classroom teachers, instructional/teacher assistants, parents, the IEP team and the evaluation team
When should a student be referred?
Students who have difficulty with the following skills may be referred for a speech/language screening or evaluation:- articulation (production of speech sounds)
- phonemic awareness skills (manipulating sounds in words)
- following directions
- listening and reading comprehension (summarizing, main idea...)
- auditory processing skills (attending, memory, sound discrimination)
- wh-questions (asking and answering)
- vocabulary (understanding, labeling, defining word meanings/word relationships)
- word finding (tip of the tongue)
- grammar/writing skills
- narrative skills (the ability to describe things and events, and to tell stories)
- sequencing events
- fluency/stuttering
- voice (may sound hoarse, nasal, denasal, too quiet/loud)
- pragmatic skills (knowing what to say, how to say it, when to say it and how to interact with others)
- initiating/maintaining conversations
- and more!
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